[[logstash-configuration-management-api-retrieve]]
=== Retrieve pipeline API
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<titleabbrev>Retrieve pipeline</titleabbrev>
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experimental[] Retrieve a centrally-managed Logstash pipeline.

[[logstash-configuration-management-api-retrieve-request]]
==== Request

`GET <kibana host>:<port>/api/logstash/pipeline/<id>`

[[logstash-configuration-management-api-retrieve-path-params]]
==== Path parameters

`id`::
  (Required, string) The pipeline ID.

[[logstash-configuration-management-api-retrieve-example]]
==== Example

The API returns the following:

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{
  "id": "hello-world",
  "description": "Just a simple pipeline",
  "username": "elastic",
  "pipeline": "input { stdin {} } output { stdout {} }",
  "settings": {
    "queue.type": "persistent"
  }
}
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